Talks & Supervision

Talks & Supervision

Talks

ESANN 2026 · Contributed speaker · April 2026

Conference programme

NTNU NorwAI Spring Forum · Invited speaker · April 2026

Forum page

BI Norwegian Business School · Invited lecturer · February 2026

Graduate course: AI, Technologies and Applications (Spring 2026)

ECML PKDD ML4ITS Workshop · Invited speaker · September 2025

Porto, Portugal
Talk: Anomaly Detection in Telecom Time Series: From Graph-Based Models Towards Representation Learning
Workshop page

NTNU NorwAI Forum · Invited speaker · March 2025

Talk: Telenor’s Journey in Network Anomaly Detection — Towards Generative AI Approaches in Complex Telecom Environments

BI Norwegian Business School · Invited lecturer · February 2023

Graduate course: AI, Technologies and Applications (Spring 2023)

Oslo Data Science Meetup · Invited speaker · March 2022

Talk: GANs for Anomaly Detection on Telco Multivariate Time Series
Event link

Friday AI Webinar · Invited speaker · November 2021

NTNU, NORA and NAIL
Talk: Generative Adversarial Networks for Anomaly Detection on Telco Multivariate Time Series

1st International Workshop on Machine Learning for Irregular Time Series · Invited panel participant · September 2021

ECML PKDD 2021
Workshop page

Operator Algebras Seminar · Invited speaker · July 2018

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Quantum Homogeneous Spaces · Invited speaker · June 2018

ICMS, Edinburgh

Danish-Norwegian Operator Algebra Workshop · Contributed speaker · January 2017

Lysebu, Oslo

7ECM Satellite Conference on Compact Quantum Groups · Invited speaker · July 2016

Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald, Germany

Norwegian Operator Algebras Meeting · Contributed speaker · November 2015

NTNU, Trondheim

Supervision

Ongoing

C. Eder — PhD

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2025–present

Thesis topic: Multi-View Data Augmentations for Time Series Data

Main supervisor: Benjamin Kille. Co-supervisors: Sara Malacarne and Kerstin Bach.

S. Munthe — Master’s

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2026–present

Thesis: Deep Operator Networks for Telco Network Intelligence

Main supervisor: Massimiliano Ruocco. Co-supervisors: Sara Malacarne and Michail Spitieris.

L. B. Strand — Master’s

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2026–present

Thesis: Shift-Conditioned Generative Adaptation for Robust Predictive Modelling Under Distribution Shift

Main supervisor: Massimiliano Ruocco. Co-supervisors: Sara Malacarne and Michail Spitieris.

T. L. Borning and I. Tonnesen — Master’s

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2026–present

Thesis: Uncertainty-Aware Anomaly Detection with Generative Models

Main supervisor: Massimiliano Ruocco. Co-supervisors: Sara Malacarne and Michail Spitieris.

V. A. Albretsen — Master’s

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2026–present

Thesis: Wavelet-Based Representations for Time Series

Main supervisor: Benjamin Kille. Co-supervisors: Christoph Eder and Sara Malacarne.

Completed

D. Lee — PhD

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2025

Thesis: Towards Universal Time Series Modeling: Deep Generative Modeling and Self-Supervised Learning for Time Series and Beyond

Main supervisor: Erlend Aune. Co-supervisors: Jo Eidsvik and Sara Malacarne.

D. Kristiansen — Master’s

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2026

Thesis: Zero Shot Time Series Foundation Models in the Telecom Domain

Main supervisor: Massimiliano Ruocco. Co-supervisor: Sara Malacarne.

S. Kristoffersen and P. S. Nordby — Master’s

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2024

Thesis: SiamTST: Improving Telecommunication Network Analysis Through Innovative Multivariate Time Series Representation Learning

Supervisors: Massimiliano Ruocco, Sara Malacarne and Pablo Ortiz.

S. N. Vang — Master’s

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2021

Thesis: Generative Adversarial Networks for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Multivariate Time-Series Telecommunications Data

Main supervisor: Massimiliano Ruocco. Co-supervisor: Sara Malacarne.

A. O. Harstad and W. E. G. Kvaale — Master’s

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2021

Thesis: Spatio-Temporal Graph Attention Network for Anomaly Detection in the Telco Domain

Main supervisor: Massimiliano Ruocco. Co-supervisors: Sara Malacarne and Claudio Gallicchio.